{"id":640921,"date":"2017-09-07T04:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/07\/egypt-is-going-energy-mad-petroleum-economist\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T04:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:06:49","slug":"egypt-is-going-energy-mad-petroleum-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/07\/egypt-is-going-energy-mad-petroleum-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt is going energy mad -Petroleum Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cEgypt is going energy mad,\u201d<\/strong> says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petroleum-economist.com\/articles\/low-carbon-energy\/nuclear\/2017\/nuclear-next-for-egypt\">Petroleum Economist<\/a>. If the Dabaa nuclear power plant project succeeds, Egypt\u2019s long-term electricity needs could be covered, especially since the country is close to being self-sufficient in natural gas, as Zohr is due to come onstream end of the year. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi invited his Russian counterpart to come to Egypt for the signing of the final Dabaa contract, at a date yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEgypt is going energy mad,\u201d says the Petroleum Economist. If the Dabaa nuclear power plant project succeeds, Egypt\u2019s long-term electricity needs could be covered, especially since the country is close to being self-sufficient in natural gas, as Zohr is due to come onstream end of the year. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi invited his Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-640921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"1a65f798-053d-4cc2-b4f4-2cc6ba14a926","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"b45f3d09-51b3-4e94-98f2-9cd595b02466","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[640897],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt is going energy mad -Petroleum Economist - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/07\/egypt-is-going-energy-mad-petroleum-economist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt is going energy mad -Petroleum Economist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cEgypt is going energy mad,\u201d says the Petroleum Economist. 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